Movies that can be seen on April 1

April 1, 2026 arrives with a selection of movies that can be seen for their variety of tones and looks: Graceby Paolo Sorrentino, focuses on the moral dilemma of a president; Malaga Streetby Maryam Touzani, combines dramatic comedy with a brilliant Carmen Maura; High capacitiesby Víctor García León, observes the middle class with irony; and Two prosecutorsby Sergei Loznitsa, turns Stalinist repression into a highly topical political reflection.

GRACE (Paolo Sorrentino, 2025)

Many of the Neapolitan filmmaker's stories are, at the same time, portraits of characters. Types that acquire thickness if they are played by the great Toni Servillo, brilliant when he composes deplorable politicians (Berlusconi and Andreotti, a shabby version and a refined version of the same corruption) as when he invents the lively Gambardella from “La grande bellezza”, probably a character not so far from the president of the Republic that he now incarnates. In this portrait the director moderates his cartoonish lines to investigate the moral dilemma of the president, a Catholic and friend of the Pope, who has to sign a euthanasia law with which he does not agree; This happens while his conscience bothers him about whether his wife was unfaithful to him and he sees the near horizon of the end of his term. It may not be as showy a film as the others, but it has many nuances, presents a character in the most human power and is still pure Sorrentino.

CALLE MÁLAGA (Maryam Touzani, 2025)

A Carmen Maura with gray hair and wrinkles shines with her own light in this dramatic comedy with a background of denouncing the situation of many elderly people, manipulated by their children (and heirs!), making the last years of their lives impossible. The viewer cannot help but agree with this willful denunciation, the problem is that the script is quite predictable and simple, laborious in its development, with the result of a bland film; a shame, because the director showed talent in her previous film, “The Blue Caftan.”

HIGH CAPACITIES (Víctor García León, 2026)

Director Víctor García León has participated in excellent series (cycle “Vota Juan” or “Animal”) and three highly estimable feature films; His comedic nature, close to sarcasm and caricature, but never bitter, does not prevent him from drawing critical portraits of society and its miseries. Now it portrays a married couple with a problematic child who aspires to a more elite school, which would serve for everyone's promotion. The twists and turns of history are less interesting than the portrait of that middle class that passes for being “normal” but has the thorn in the side of the ambition for a better social position. Perhaps it lacks bite and rhythm, as if a minor, more reflective tone had been chosen, but there is a very estimable social diagnosis.

DOS FISCALES (Sergei Loznitsa, 2025)

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa tells a story set in the Soviet Union in 1937, in the midst of Stalin-era repression. A young and inexperienced prosecutor begins to investigate the false accusations that are commonplace and the torture suffered by innocent people in macro-prisons. He goes to a second prosecutor, with greater responsibilities, but the result is even worse. With a certain theatrical flair that condenses the action into dialogues, it is a full-fledged denunciation of the dictatorship and its abuses of human rights. And, obviously, the opportunity is clear if we think about the Putin regime, with the defenestration or exile of any dissidence.

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